deranger , 5 days ago

Regarding the testing - Short of waiting 100 years, how else would you accelerate the degradation of the discs to simulate aging?

Not totally surprised about Reddit falling for some misunderstood labeling. Just curious about that, mainly.

However, even if they are perfect they still wouldn’t meet my needs. I couldn’t use them to share data with anyone I know, as nobody has a data Blu-ray drive. I can’t access the data on them at a whim, and they’re slower than a RAID array. I can’t easily perform automated routine data scrubbing to ensure corruption hasn’t occurred. Speaking of; how often do you verify the data on your discs, and how do you do it?

I can see its usefulness in some scenarios (cold storage), but I’m quite happy with my NAS.